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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Eva Wiseman

What’s the secret to giving good advice? Wait until you are asked for it

Illustration by Jacquie Boyd.
Illustration by Jacquie Boyd. Illustration: Observer only/The Observer

We are living through a golden age of advice. Of budgeting tips and smoky-eye tutorials and from three easy ways to remove stains from a carpet to how to breathe.

Influencers take you on a personal journey of advice, from their favourite face serums, to how to eat breakfast, to how to raise your children, to how to avoid being brainwashed by the liberal elite. Theatres are sold out months in advance for talks by charismatic writers answering questions from their female audiences on such problems as body negativity, the role afforded to celebrities as climate change communicators and what kind of adult man eats a Kinder Egg.

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